One gun that hits with every shot can match a hundred guns that hit one in a hundred.
天気晴朗ナレドモ浪高シ。
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Tōgō Heihachirō
The admiral who destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima (1905) — the most decisive naval victory since Trafalgar. Togo Heihachiro's calm mastery of modern naval warfare made Japan a world power overnight and established him as 'the Nelson of the East' in Western estimation.
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